Comment Re:bribery (Score 1) 294
Ain't highly federal gov structures a hilarious thing? Honestly, who needs imported sitcoms if you have politics.
Anwar al-Awlaki - intentionally executed without trial. Samir Khan - unintentionally executed as part of the execution of Anwar al-Awlaki. Jude Kenan Mohammad - intentionally executed. Had previously been convicted of terrorism conspiracy, but not to a sufficient degree to actually be imprisoned. Abdulrahman al-Awlaki - 16 year old with no personal involvement in terrorism, but who had a father (Anwar al-Awlaki) who was involved. Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary, stated that he "should have had a more responsible father." Unclear at what level the execution was a mistake.
Three of the four are arguably "bad guys" - but they should still have gotten a proper trial, so we could determine if they are. The last one doesn't even seem to be a bad guy, just somebody that happened to be born to an unfortunate father.
Surely those drone strikes have produced more deaths than that. Unless these so called "surgical strikes" involve explosions that do only affect the intended target instead of everybody in the blast area. Sure, you can keep the number of extrajudically killed "targets" low if you only list those you intentionally killed. This kind of fiddling with the figures for the press and the voters at home is especially cynical if it involves human beings blwn to smithereens. What about the family of Uzman Wasir who was killed in a drone strike while he was off selling fruit? His two kids, his brother and his wife makes four deaths. But that wasn't an extra judicial killing but a "'orrible, 'orrible misunderstanding".
Dear Sirs,
Would you kindly fuck yourselves.
Kind regards,
The Rest of the World
[puts tinfoil hat back on]
Well, that'll help with the spying: http://slashdot.org/story/05/11/10/1839224/aluminum-foil-hats-will-not-stop-them
Hah! You and your inferior aluminum. Use aluminium, that's the real shtuff.
I hate the choices in this poll.
Me too. Where is the extraterrestrial option? This has the added benefit that if they are spying on me, they probably aren't kidnapping and probing me. I hate when that happens. Spying is much better. [puts tinfoil hat back on]
Nonsense! Mars Staatsicherheit not only kidnaps and probes you, they give you a lovely 24 hour, 37 minute (in Earth time) interrogation and take smell samples in case they run into you again.
So little green men give you lengthy and well orchestrated blow-jobs of the brown-nosed variety? That's a better deal than the Yanks/Brits are giving. All they have is a five party circle-jerk. So that makes this proposal rather tempting. What are the French offering?
"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants